Officers were called to an Owings Mills condo in the 3000 block of Hunting Ridge Drive around 1 a.m. Thursday for an unknown trouble call. Officers got more information stating it was a domestic-related incident.

"Sounded like she was begging, you know, like, 'Don't do that. Don't do this. Please stop,'" neighbor Keith Lewis said.

Lewis lives on second floor and said he could hear the argument escalate before police arrived.

Police said officers could hear a disturbance in the home and forced their way in when the door was not answered.

Police said the officers entered and encountered a man making movements that placed the officers in fear that he had a weapon.

"The police officers encountered a subject in a defensive position, making body movements and arm movements that placed the officers in fear of serious injury or death. All three police officers discharged their department-issued firearm at the individual, striking him several times. Officers conducted a preliminary search for a weapon and no weapon was found," Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson said.

The exact number of times officers discharged their weapons was not immediately known, but investigators found 19 shell casings in the area of the incident.

"Squad cars rolled up, you know, I heard a big thud. I don't know whether they were booting the door or what have you and it was her yelling, 'No, no, no, no,' and then about 10 shots," Lewis said.

Later in the afternoon, police identified the man as Spencer Lee McCain, 41, saying he died at a hospital at 8 a.m.

Police said the incident began when one of the children in the home called his grandmother, who called 911 and asked police to go there.

An officer who arrived heard screams and called for backup, Johnson said.

Police said the woman had head injuries, cuts, bruises and swelling. Johnson said she told detectives that McCain said to her, "You're going to get the beating you deserve."

Police said a protective order barred McCain from going to the condo where he was shot.

County police identified the officers on Saturday as Officer Wilkes, a six-year veteran; Officer Besaw, an eight-year veteran; and Officer Stargel, a five-year veteran.

Longtime residents said the Newtown condo community is normally pretty quiet.